Theatre and Film in the Real World · Project preparation · quiz worth 100 pts
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Open the assessment linked at the end of the course lesson. Work in order: define your community, evaluate the six provided plays, then choose two additional productions from the supplied list.
The rubric assigns 20 points to community research, 60 to the provided-play chart, and 20 to your two selections.
Answer all three community questions: describe local demographics; explain social and cultural norms, values, and possible concerns; research a nearby school or community theater’s recent productions and what they reflect.
The document allows research or personal knowledge. It points to the United States Census for credible demographic information. Keep track of which facts you researched and which observations come from people you know.
Keep evidence and interpretation separate.
Use relevant demographic facts and observations. Avoid treating an age group, race, or location as proof that everyone thinks alike.
Look at a nearby theater’s recent production list. Explain what it suggests, without claiming it proves everyone’s beliefs.
Does your personal taste represent the whole community?
No. Explain the likely audience response using what you know or researched about the community.
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Evaluate Rent, The Skin of Our Teeth, American Psycho, Six, Chicago, and Something Rotten! Use the official descriptions already in the chart.
For each, mark controversial or not controversial as a high school production in your community. The Charlie Brown row is a completed sample, separate from your six responses.
Write at least two sentences for each explanation. Identify a detail in the description, then explain why that detail fits or conflicts with your community’s expectations.
Use your community’s perspective. Your own enjoyment or dislike alone does not justify the choice. Different students may reach different conclusions; the explanation needs to support yours.
The lesson names several possible sources of controversy.
Consider inappropriate content, inaccurate or disrespectful depictions, hot-button issues or current events, and emotional triggers.
Explain how a specific detail could matter to the people attending a high school performance in your community.
Does controversy automatically require censorship?
No. The lesson says difficult subjects can start meaningful conversations.
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Choose two titles from the assessment’s supplied list: one appropriate for a local high school production and one that might be controversial. Find a plot summary for each.
Add each title, description, category, and explanation to the last chart. Keep the source of each summary in your notes so you can check its details. The available titles are in “Break it down for me.”
Choose from the official list. No title has been selected for you.
Almost, Maine; Clue; Peter and the Starcatcher; Puffs, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic; Radium Girls.
Into the Woods; Little Shop of Horrors; Mamma Mia!; Seussical; The Addams Family.
Use a reliable production, publisher, or licensing source when possible. Note the title and source. Do not add plot details you have not verified.
Can both added selections go in the same category?
No. The assessment asks for one appropriate selection and one that might be controversial.
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Count three thoughtful community responses, six provided-play judgments with explanations, and two additional selections with descriptions and explanations. Check that the two selections include one in each category.
The top bands reward insight and depth as well as completion. Check every explanation against the two-sentence instruction and the community perspective.
Save your completed assessment and reopen it to check every chart row. In Canvas, open the Too Much Controversy? upload assignment, choose Upload, and select your file.
Check that the intended filename appears, then click Submit Assignment. Portal practice does not submit the course project.
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